Specialist Hand Therapy Occupational Therapist

Specialist Hand Therapy Occupational Therapist Mountain Ash, Wales

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Full Time Mountain Ash, Wales 41659 - 47672 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

An exciting opportunity has become available to join our specialist Hand Therapy Team. The successful candidate will have experience in delivering a high standard of assessment and evaluation of patients referred to hand therapy following elective/ traumatic hand surgery.

They will be able to select appropriate treatment techniques from a wide range of specialist skills available and past experience. These can include the fabrication of a range of specialist static/ dynamic splints using sound clinical reasoning and the evidence base, patient education and advice, exercise prescription, wound, scar and oedema management.

Provide clinical assessment and intervention to out patients attending the OT department and support colleagues working with in patients who may have splinting needs.

To manage a caseload of clients providing specialist OT interventions for patients with complex needs including assessment, intervention, risk management and referral to other services as required.

The post holder will also be required to provide expert advice and joint working for cases held by other members of the team.

Make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about intervention options.

Offer highly specialist assessment of patients.

Develop specialist interventions that are evidence based.

To work with occupational therapists (and other members of the multidisciplinary team) providing hand and upper limb services on other sites in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board to develop the service across the whole health board.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:
We listen, learn and improve

We treat everyone with respect

We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac

Specialist Hand Therapy Occupational Therapist
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

www.cwmtaf.wales
Cardiff, United Kingdom
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